[Raptor1]

On the subject of Barbarossa, I think Operation Marita and the diversion of Army Group Center to the Battle of Kiev are often given unnecessary credit in supposedly fatally delaying the launch of Barbarossa and the attack on Moscow, respectively. I've seen many people that seem to think that had these events not occurred (ignoring, of course, that it was mud season in Russia when the Battle of Greece took place and the threat the Kiev salient posed to the German lines), the German army would have somehow captured Moscow and won the war.

This likely comes from the (in my opinion) mistaken but widespread impression that the Germans were somehow one right decision short of winning the war, rather than not even being remotely close to anything of the sort.

EDIT: Thinking about it, it probably wouldn't be a stretch to say that the German army in World War II is itself overrated in many ways either.